HOW should you go about choosing a dentist? Should he/she be the one who is in the neighbourhood? That would

FOR many years the dental profession worked mainly with rather inert (stable) materials that had limited contact with living tissue.

THE tooth equation is pretty simple: germs plus sugar equals acid production. These acids can dissolve enamel and the tooth-root

PROPHYLAXIS means “to prevent”. In dentistry, the term refers to professional cleaning, scaling, and polishing of the teeth by a

SUCCESSFUL treatment in the healing arts is not attributed exclusively to administering an appropriate remedy. Once there is person-to-person interaction,

Anyone with recognised gum disease, also called periodontal disease, even in the early stages, is well advised to brush and

DENTAL caries, commonly known as tooth decay and gum disease, determine a person’s oral health level. Unfortunately, such diseases are

BECAUSE germs are so abundant under the gums and are so intermingled with sloughed-off epithelial cells from the gingival tissue

THE field of dentistry has been experiencing many innovations, although these instances are not widely known, and it would therefore

UNFORTUNATELY, the public has been grievously misinformed about brushing, flossing, and using some advertised products; they all still fall short